Ofer Raban

Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Ofer Raban teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Investigation, and Legal Theory.

Professor Raban received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his D.Phil. in legal philosophy from Oxford University. He then worked as a prosecutor in New York before returning to academia. Professor Raban taught law, among other places, at the University of Oxford, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Utah.

Publications

Books

Modern Legal Theory and Judicial Impartiality (London: Cavendish Press, 2003).

Selected Articles

"A Ratchet That Can Get Stuck: On the Relationship Between the Federal and States' Constitutions," in Between Complexity of Law and Lack of Order: Philosophy of Law in Era of Globalization (eds. M. Zirk-Sadowski, B. Wojciechowski, M. Golecki) (forthcoming 2009).

"Real and Imagined Threats to the Rule of Law," 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 478 (2008).

"Gerrymandering,"in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (Macmillan Reference, USA, 2008).

"Be They Fish Or Not Fish: The Fishy Registration of Nonsexual Offenders," 16 Am. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 497 (2007).

"The Supreme Court's Endorsement of a Politicized Judiciary: A Philosophical Critique," 8 J.L. Soc'y 114 (2007).

"The Embarrassing Saga of New York's Derivative Right to Counsel," 80 St. John's L. Rev. 389 (2006).

"Legislation, Adjudication, and Public Justification," Schriften zur Rechtstheorie, Volume 215/II (2006) [Germany].

"Judicial Impartiality and the Regulation of Judicial Election Campaigns," 15 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 205 (2004).

"Dworkin's 'Best Light' Requirement and the Proper Methodology of Legal Theory," 23 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 243 (2003).

"Content-Based, Secondary Effects, and Expressive Conduct: What in the World Do They Mean (and What Do They Mean to the U.S. Supreme Court)?," 30 Seton Hall L. Rev. 551 (2000).

Selected Presentations

On the Relation between Law and Politics, American Constitution Society (a debate with Professor Mark Graber), University of Oregon School of Law (Sept. 2008).

Judicial elections and the Supreme Court's Misguided Legal Theory, O'Connell Conference, University of Oregon School of Law (Sept. 2008).

Bar of Ankara and the Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2008, On Law and Justice, International Congress on the Philosophy of Law.

XXIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Cracow, Poland, August 2007, Politicized Legal Interpretation.

University of Detroit Mercy School of law, International Law Society, Detroit, February 2007, What is Legal Theory?

University of Detroit Mercy School of law, Constitution Week, Detroit, September 2006, Is President Bush's Surveillance Program Constitutional?

Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2006, The U.S. Supreme Court and the Notion of Judicial Impartiality.

American Constitution Society, Symposium on Judicial Independence, Detroit, April 2006, Textualism and Judicial Independence.